Coughlin Shows His Warm, Cuddly Side

By

Jonathan Clegg

Feb. 22, 2013 8:29 p.m. ET

INDIANAPOLIS—The NFL Scouting Combine is a decidedly odd spectacle.

There's really no other way to describe an event in which hundreds of scouts, coaches and reporters huddle in an empty stadium here to watch kids from Southeastern Louisiana and Stony Brook perform the three-cone drill. But of all the strange sights at Lucas Oil Stadium on Friday, the most surreal may have been Tom Coughlin at the podium to address the media.